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Well Christmas is only days away and we took off next weekend for the holiday. Lets catch up on what we have been up to.

We built a roof over our Alco prime mover so it can survive the winter outdoors.
   

The injectors were all changed out in 664 ending the oil pressure problem. We were able to test this out over last weekend as we took the F-3's out on a run to the Water-gap to qualify a new engineer. This would be the last time any equipment is going to leave Steamtown till the Spring. It was a chilly day in the Poconos with a few inches of fresh snow on the ground as we started up our 70 year old EMD's. As air pressure built up we all talked about our Christmas plans, train orders, and track conditions. Hot chocolate and coffee were handed out. Today we will deadhead east without any coaches, we wanted to tack on the Lackawanna caboose that has just been repainted, but it still needed to have its air brakes inspected :cry: . Our crew will consist of a conductor, engineer, engineer trainee and two mechanics ( Rich Jahn and myself ) . No other trains will be running on the Pocono main till tomorrow afternoon, so we have the whole railroad to ourselves. It was a very relaxed trip with a stop at the pizza shop for lunch and a few photo stops.

Here we back down the gang plank towards bridge 60 as a foamer gets into position to take our portrait. Soon we will take the main and head east out of Scranton.
   

Here we pass one of the DL&W concrete towers that dot the main.
   

Here we pass one of the grade crossings just outside of Stroudsburg, and look,,,,it's that railfan again.
   

East Stroudsburg tower.